Use php to handle 'pretend' paths?

[ristuart]

Hi,

I'm not at all sure if this is possible. I think I might have seen this sort of thing done at a site, but I'm not at all sure.

Is it possible to have a php script, probably index.php, at a particular path, for example...

www.domain.com/path/index.php

...and use it to handle any 'pretend' paths below that? So you could access

www.domain.com/path/foo/bar/

and the script would handle the /foo/bar/ and display some content accordingly?

Hope you understand what I mean, just something I'm wondering about here!

ristuart 🙂

[tsinka]

Hi,

one way would be to set the ErrorDocument in the web server configuration to that script. Whenever you call a url the server can't find it would redirect to that script where you can read out the originally requested url and do whatever you want.

[ristuart]

Hi,

I think I'd thought of that before. I'm working in Apache environment, so I'd set the ErrorDocument with a .htaccess file. How would I manage to get the originally requested URL out though?

I think that's what I couldn't work out before.

Thanks for your time,
ristuart

Edit: Thinking about it, phpwiki (and other such things) must do something like this. Anyone know how they do it?